System for facilitating the search of video content

ABSTRACT

A system for facilitating the search of video content, comprising a fingerprint extractor which is adapted to extract a fingerprint associated with a video content clip for specific time of video content; a fingerprint archive database from which database entries matching the specific time of video content are selected; a search module to which the database entries matching the specific time of video content are delivered, by which the searched database entries into continuous fingerprint streams are reconstructed, and in which the searched database entries from the same location and channel are grouped together, and the fingerprint data sections are stripped out of the entries and concatenated according to the segment ID and time-stamps contained within each entry; a matcher by which the fingerprint associated with the video clip is searched from the continuous fingerprint streams to find a match; and a formatter which is adapted to combine a matching result with additional information obtained from the archive entries to form a search report. The system according to the present invention can extract fingerprint information from video content for the purpose of archiving without the huge storage capacity required, can collect statistics and extract additional information from the archived video information automatically based on the user entered searching video clip information, and can search through video fingerprint data for identifying historical recording and collect statistics and extract additional information of video content easily at low hardware cost.

RELATED APPLICATION

This application is the U.S. National Phase under 35 U.S.C. §371 ofInternational Application No. PCT/CN2008/071030, filed on May 21, 2008,the disclosure of which Application is incorporated by reference herein.

FIELD OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

The present invention relates to a system for facilitating the search ofvideo content.

The so called term “video clip” appearing in this specification means afinite duration video content along with associated audio tracks,whether in digital or analog formats. Since video content consists oftime-consecutive frames of video images. A video clip consists of afinite number of time-consecutive number of video images, along with theassociated audio tracks of the same duration.

The so called term “fingerprint” appearing in this specification means aseries of dot information, in which each dot information is selectedfrom a frame of pattern of television signals, and a plurality of framescan be selected from the television signals, and one or more dot datacan be selected from one frame of pattern of television signals, so thatthe so called “fingerprint” can be used to uniquely identify saidtelevision signals.

The so called term “visually identical” appearing in this specificationmeans that two video content segment are visually identical if they areobtained from a single video image capture or recording device at thesame time. In other words, they originate from a single video source andat the same time, i.e., a single time-space video source. For example,two copies of a single video tape are visually identical because theyare from the same source. Two versions of compressed video data streamsare visually identical if they are encoded and/or re-encoded from thesame video content source, despite the fact that they may have differentcompression formats, bit rates or resolutions. On the other hand, twodifferent video recordings of the same scene, but shot from twodifferent cameras, or two different video recordings of the same scenebut shot at different times from the same camera, are NOT visuallyidentical because they are not created from a single time-space videosource. When there are two different video recordings of differentdurations, a section of each recording may still be visually identical.

The fingerprint is used to seek out visually identical video segmentsbetween two different video content pieces. The content pieces may be inanalog recording format, or in digital compressed format, or in digitaluncompressed format. When two video clips are to be compared todetermine if they are visually identical, in stead of comparing the twovideo contents, an automatic procedure can be deployed to compare thefingerprints obtained from each of the video clips. If the fingerprintsmatch each other, then it is to say that the video clips are visuallyidentical to each other.

A typical application is to use the technique to perform fingerprintbased identification of video content. Specifically, known video clipsare first registered into a fingerprint database, and when new videoclips are obtained, their fingerprints are compared with thefingerprints already in the database to determine if the new content isvisually identical to a previously registered video clip.

In this document, the terms “video”, “video content”, and “videosignals” generically represent the same concept, i.e., visualinformation that can be displayed on television or computer monitors.The terms “video frames”, “digital video images”, and “video imageframes” generically represent digitized video images, i.e.,time-consecutive images that together form the motion video content. Thevideo images, as part of the same video content, have the same number ofvideo samples formed in rows and columns. The number of samples in a rowis the width or horizontal resolution of the image, and the number ofsamples in a column is the height or the vertical resolution of theimage.

In addition, the term “fingerprint” or “fingerprint data” represent thedata formed by sampling consecutive video frames. The fingerprint orfingerprint data can be used to determine if two video contents arevisually identical or not. Continuous samples of video frames formfingerprint data streams, or fingerprint streams. To better organize thefingerprint stream, sometimes, it is necessary to partition a continuousfingerprint stream into multiple segments. These segments are so called“fingerprint data segments” or just “fingerprint segments”.

BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

With digital compression technology, it is possible to carry manytelevision channels in the spectrum space of a single analog channel.Because of this, more television channels are transmitted over the samespectrum, and there are more channels for viewers to watch. Digitallycompressed video and audio signals are binary data streams that can betransmitted, stored and played out as computer data files or streams.Therefore, digital video/audio data are typically handled in digitalforms during production, transmission and storage phases.

Most of the video content in television broadcast, cable broadcast andon the internet originates in digital formats. Most of the content isalready produced and stored in digital storage devices before it isdistributed to consumers. For the purpose of managing advertisingactivities and marketing campaigns, government regulation enforcement,market research, and broadcasting signal monitoring, there is a need tocontinuously monitor the video signals as they are distributed toviewers.

In prior art, the operator may be given a video clip and be asked tosearch through the archived recordings to see where and when the videoclip has shown up in video distributions in the past. In other words,the operator may be asked to search through the archived recordings toseek video content that is visually identical to the given video clip.For example, advertisers may want to determine if a particularcommercial video has been distributed properly over the last year incertain geographic areas, so that they can track the effectiveness oftheir advertising campaign.

There are several problems with the above. The first problem is the factthat video content typically consumes massive amount of storagecapacity. For example, a single channel of television content broadcastfor 24 hours would consume at least 10 GB. For the purpose of monitoringthousands of television channels for a year or more, the storagecapacity requirement can easily get into the Petabyte (1PB=1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) ranges.

The other problem is that even if the content is saved in storagesystems, the cost to maintain, search and archive the content data canbe too expensive for most users. This cost is reflected in terms ofstorage, computation and network hardware systems needed to perform thetasks. In many scenarios, the information to be archived and searched isnot on the specific content itself, but more specifically related towhen and where the content is distributed. This information can bevaluable for content owners, marketers and relevant governmentregulators to track the coverage of specific video content. The purposeof this invention is to provide a system to facilitate this capability.

Therefore, there is a need to provide a system for facilitating thearchiving and search of video content without a huge storage capacityrequired, and to be able to search the information easily at lowhardware cost. There is also a need to collect statistics and extractionadditional information from the archived video informationautomatically.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It is object of the present invention to provide a system forfacilitating the search of video content, which can collect statisticsand extraction additional information from the archived videoinformation automatically.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a system forfacilitating the search of video content, which can extract fingerprintinformation from video content for the purpose of archiving without thehuge storage capacity required.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a system forfacilitating the search of video content, which can search through videofingerprint data for identifying information and statistics abouthistorical recording of video content easily at low hardware cost.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a system forfacilitating the search of video content, which can extract fingerprintinformation from video content across geographically different remotelocations and over long period of time for the purpose of archivingwithout the huge storage capacity required.

Therefore, according to the present invention, there is provided asystem for facilitating the search of video content, comprising afingerprint extractor which is adapted to extract a fingerprintassociated with a video content clip for specific time of video content;a fingerprint archive database from which database entries matching thespecific time of video content are selected; a search module to whichthe database entries matching the specific time of video content aredelivered, by which the searched database entries into continuousfingerprint streams are reconstructed, and in which the searcheddatabase entries from the same location and channel are groupedtogether, and the fingerprint data sections are stripped out of theentries and concatenated according to the segment ID and time-stampscontained within each entry; a matcher by which the fingerprintassociated with the video clip is searched from the continuousfingerprint streams to find a match; and a formatter which is adapted tocombine a matching result with additional information obtained from thearchive entries to form a search report.

Preferably, the additional information obtained from the archive entriesis time, location, channel, and/or content types.

Preferably, the video content clip is from an analog video tape player,an analog video output of a digital set-top or personal video recorder(PVR) receiver, an analog output of a DVD player, or an analog videooutput of a video tuner receiver module.

Preferably, a converter is adapted to take the video clip as input, toperform analog to digital conversion and to pass the resulting digitizedvideo frame data to the fingerprint extractor, which obtains thefingerprint samples for the video frames transferred from the converter.

Preferably, the video content clip is in digital compressed video dataformat, and it is made to first go through the receiver converter toperform decompression and deliver the digital decompressed video signalsto the fingerprint extractor.

Preferably, the input to the extractor is the digitized video framedata, and it is stored into a frame buffer, and a sub-sampler obtainsselected samples from each video frame data.

Preferably, said fingerprint entries are searched from said archivedatabase according to location, time, channel, and/or programmingcontent.

Preferably, said fingerprint stream is advanced relative to saidsearching fingerprint by one frame and the matching operation isrepeated, if a match is not found.

Preferably, if a match is found, the additional information associatedwith the entries is combined with the information on the searching videoclip to product a single report message.

Preferably, multiple searching operations, each corresponding adifferent searching video clip, can be performed concurrently with eachother.

By using fingerprint in stead of the video content itself, it ispossible to archive huge amount of video content without the associatedstorage capacity required. For example, it is possible to maintain afingerprint archive for 1000 television channels, on a 24 hours basis,for 10 years, with a fingerprint archive database of no more than 40terabytes (1 TB=1,000,000,000,000 bytes). However, to store video of thesame duration at 1 million bits per second, the storage required wouldbe 40 petabytes (1 PB=1000 TB), which is 1000 times higher thanmaintaining a fingerprint archive.

In addition, the fingerprint archive can be automatically compared forsearching applications. For example, a user may have a video clip of 15seconds, and wants to know if this same video clip has ever appeared inthe past 10 years in any of the 1000 television channels. By using thetechnique from this invention, it would be possible to obtaininformation on: time of its appearance; location of the distribution(where the video content was originally recorded); and channel number,i.e., which television channel actually carried this signal, so that itis possible to know whether the video has appeared anywhere in therecorded archive.

By using the invention described in this document, it's possible toperform a search like the above across a huge archive which would beimpossible if the video content itself, instead of the fingerprint data,is used.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic view for collecting video statistics, in terms ofits fingerprints, and submitting it to a data center over a network orother data transfer means.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view for collecting video fingerprint data fromanalog video signal sources.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view for collecting video fingerprint data fromdigital video signal sources.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view for collecting video fingerprint data andstoring the data in removable storage devices which can be physicallydelivered to the data center.

FIG. 5 is a schematic view for collecting video fingerprint data andstoring the data in local storage devices for later transfer over anetwork to the data center.

FIG. 6 is a schematic view for performing the fingerprint extractionwith local capture information embedded into the extracted fingerprintdata streams.

FIG. 7 is a schematic view for organizing multiple segments offingerprint data for transfer to data center as continuous data streams.

FIG. 8 is a schematic view for retrieving fingerprint entries in thefingerprint archive database with certain search criteria.

FIG. 9 is a schematic view for the processing modules within the datacenter.

FIG. 10 is a schematic view for the processing modules with thefingerprint extractor.

FIG. 11 is schematic view for the processing steps for performing theimage sampling as part of the video fingerprint.

FIG. 12 is a schematic view for performing the fingerprint based searchfrom a fingerprint archive database.

FIG. 13 is a schematic view for the decision process within the datacenter regarding matching and search of a video clip from within thefingerprint archive database.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

In the present invention, discussions are focused on the handling andprocessing of digital video data streams. The system can be extended toaudio data streams by using variations of the techniques and will not bediscussed here.

Video monitoring requires that video content distribution activity beidentified by time, location, channel assignment or network originationaddress. In addition, the monitoring must be identified by its sourcecontent. The preferred way to monitor video content is to have arecording of the video content as it's distributed. Such recordingtypically is in digital formats, stored as data files in a computersystem. The recording also has the additional information attached tothe recording itself, such as time, location, etc. At a later time, whenan operator decides to verify the video content distribution, he or shecan simply retrieve that video recording and view it in person.

In this invention, we provide a system for facilitating the archivingand search of video content.

As shown in FIG. 1, video signals 1 are distributed in manygeographically different places. Moreover, the video signals 1 may bedistributed over different time periods. A collector 2 is deployed wherethe video signal 1 is distributed to record the signal. Many suchcollectors 2 send the collected data to the data center 4 for furtherprocess. The data path between the collectors 2 and the data center 4can be the network 3 based on the IP protocols, wireless networks,telephone modem and telephone networks, or removable storage deviceshand carried physically. The video signals 1 that the collectors 2receive may be either in analog or digital format.

FIG. 2 shows the key components for the collector 2 which takes analogvideo signal 11 as input. Typical analog format video signal source maybe from an analog video tape player, the analog video output of adigital set-top or personal video recorder (PVR) receiver, the analogoutput of a DVD player, or the analog video output of a video tunerreceiver module. Within the collector 2, the analog to digital (A/D)converter 21 is used to first digitize the analog video signal 1 intodigital video sample images before they are sent to the fingerprintextractor 22. The network interface 23 is used to transfer the extractedvideo fingerprint data to the data center 4.

FIG. 3 shows the key components for a collector 2 receiving digitalformat video signal 12. In this case, the video data is preferably indigital compressed video data format. The compressed data stream mustfirst go through the receiver converter 20. The receiver converter 20performs the decompression of the video data stream and deliver thedigitized video image data to the fingerprint extractor 22, and rest ofthe steps is similar to that of FIG. 2.

FIG. 4 shows the situation when no network transfer is available. Inthis case the extracted video fingerprint data is stored in the localremovable storage device 24, which can later be hand deliveredphysically to the data center 4.

Alternatively, the extracted fingerprint data can be stored in a localstorage 25 that is not removable but can be transferred via the networkinterface 23 and the network connection to the data center 4 atnon-regular time intervals or at pre-scheduled time. This is shown inFIG. 5.

FIG. 6 shows how the fingerprint data is extracted. The purpose of thecollector is to provide tracking information of the video contentdelivery so that the information can be searched at a later time. Duringthe video fingerprint extraction process, additional local information200 must also be incorporated into the extracted video fingerprint data.The incoming video frame data 100 is first stored into the frame buffer201, which will be sub-sampled by the sub-sampler 202. The divider 203is used to break the sub-sampled fingerprint data stream down into datasegments along the video image frame boundaries. This will be discussedin further detail in later sections. The output of the divider 203contains sub-sampled image values, so-called the video fingerprint data.The data is then combined by the formatter 204 with local collectorinformation 200. This information 200 includes location, channel number,time-stamp (which is used to mark the time at which the fingerprint datais taken), and segment ID (which is time ordering information to relatethe video frames 100). The output of the formatter 204 has all of theabove information 200 organized as data packets which will then be sentout via the transfer buffer 205.

The data organization within the transfer buffer 205 is as shown in FIG.7, in which extracted fingerprint data, along with local captureinformation, are sent to data center 4 as data packets 300. Theinformation fields within the data packets 300 do not have to in thesame order as shown in FIG. 7. Other orders can also be used. In thetransfer buffer 205, many fingerprint data packets 300 are storedtemporarily before they are sent out. The order of the data packets 300at which they enter and depart from the buffer 205 is assumed to befirst come first out (FIFO). In the FIG. 7, three data packets 300 areshown, each of them contains the fingerprint samples for a group oftime-consecutive video images. The next packet contains fingerprint datasamples for a next group of video images which follow the previous groupin time in the original video content. Each of the data packets 300 isself contained with its own data header, location, channel, segmentnumber, time-stamp and other auxiliary information. The fingerprint datais also part of the packet 300. The data header may contain informationto assist the extracting and parsing of data from the packet 300 lateron. For example, it may provide unique binary patterns as head flags,and packet length information. Optional information may furtherdescribe, but not limited to, the number of video frames 100 associatedwith the samples in this packet 300, and the manner at which the samplesare made.

The data packets 300 are transferred to the data center 4 and becomepart of the fingerprint archive database. The database will be organizedby the data packets 300 received, as shown in FIG. 8. In other words,each packet 300 appears as an entry in the database that can be searchedaccording to some rules later on. The attributes that can be used in thesearch include the information fields in the data packets 300.

The fingerprint archive database can hold such packets 300 frompotentially large number of collectors 2 over a long period of timedurations, and across many television channels or video source. Forexample, it may contain data for all of the television channelsdistributed in an entire country over the last ten years.

The database can be searched according to some specific rules. Forexample, it is possible to search the archive and extract the entriesfor a specific location or for specific time duration.

Before further describing how to make use of the fingerprint archivedatabase, we first discuss the basic processing components with the datacenter 4. This is shown in FIG. 8.

The data center 4 typically operates as follows. A user submits a videocontent clip 14, which is for specific time duration of video content.The video clip 14 preferably is in digital compressed video data format.The converter 21 takes the video clip 14 as input and performsdecompression and passes the resulting digitized video frame data to thefingerprint extractor 22, which obtains the fingerprint samples for thevideo frames transferred from the converter 21. The output of thefingerprint extractor 22 contains the fingerprint samples associatedwith the video clip 14.

The fingerprint extractor 22 preferably operates as shown in FIG. 9,where the input to the extractor is the digitized video frame data 100and it will be stored into the frame buffer 201. The sub-sampler 202obtains selected samples from each video frames 100. This samplingprocess is shown in FIG. 10.

Illustration below will focus on the internal operations of thefingerprint extractor 22 in some greater detail, see FIG. 10.

In FIG. 10, video images 100 are presented as digitized image samples,organized on a per frame basis. In a preferred embodiment, five samplesare taken from each video frame 100. The frames F1, F2, F3, F4 and F5are time continuous sequence of video images 100. The intervals betweenthe frames are 1/25 second or 1/30 second, depending on the frame rateas specified by the different video standard (such as NTSC or PAL). Theframe buffer 201 holds the frame data as organized by the frameboundaries. The sampling operation 202 is performed on one frame at atime. In the example shown in FIG. 10, five image samples are taken outof a single frame, they are represented as s1 through s5, as in 202.These five samples are taken from different locations of the video image100. One preferred embodiment for the five samples is to take one samples4 at the center of the image, one sample s1 at the half way height andhalf way left of center of image, another sample s5 at the half wayheight and half way right of center of image, another sample s2 at halfwidth and half way on top of center of image, and another sample s3 athalf width and half way below of center of image.

In the preferred embodiment, each video frames 100 are sampled exactlythe same way. In other words, image samples from the same positions aresampled for different images, and the same number of samples is takenfrom different images. In addition, the images are sampledconsecutively.

The samples are then organized as part of the continuous streams ofimage samples and be placed into the transfer buffer 205. The imagesamples from different frames are organized together into the transferbuffer 205 before it's sent out. Sampling on images may be performednon-consecutively. In other words, the number of samples taken from eachimage may be different.

Separately, as shown in FIG. 8, a set of search criteria 501 is providedto the fingerprint archive database 400. Database entries matching thesearch criteria 501 will be selected and delivered to the search module500. For example, all those entries for a specific range of days on thecalendar may be retrieved from the database and be delivered to thesearch module 500. The search module 500 then reconstructs the receivedentries into continuous fingerprint streams. The reconstruction processis the reverse of the steps in FIG. 6 and FIG. 7. This process isfurther elaborated in FIG. 12. The reconstruction process is applicableonly on a per video stream basis. In other words, only fingerprintsegments from the same location and channel can be reconstructed backinto a continuous fingerprint stream. In other words, the searcheddatabase entries from the same location and channel are grouped togetherand the fingerprint data sections are stripped out of the entries andconcatenated according to the segment ID and time-stamps containedwithin each entry. Once the fingerprint array is formed it is thecompared with the output of the fingerprint extractor 22 in FIG. 8 (alsoshown as fingerprint 101 in FIG. 12).

Next it is to show how the selected entries from the archive database400 can be prepared for the matching operation with the video clip 14.This is illustrated in FIG. 11, where four example entries 300 areselected from the fingerprint archive data for matching to thefingerprint obtained from the converter 22. Each of the entries 300contains the fingerprint data associated with a group of video images100. The selected entries 300 preferably are associated with continuousvideo images 100 from the original video signal 11.

Fingerprint archive database 400 holds entries for fingerprint streamsfrom many locations, channels and over potentially very long period oftime durations. Fingerprint entries can be retrieved from the databaseaccording to location, channel, and time. Fingerprint entries selectedmeet a specific attributes. Further search among this data results invideo information meeting the same attributes.

The fingerprint data segments are then copied out of the entries andassembled into a continuous fingerprint data stream. This stream is therestored output of the sub-sampler within fingerprint extractor 22 shownin FIG. 6 and FIG. 7.

The matcher or correlator 600 in FIG. 12 takes the fingerprint segmentobtained from the fingerprint extractor 22 and matches that to theassembled fingerprint data stream. The matcher 600 contains informationon whether the two fingerprints are matched or not. If matched, theunderlying video content are considered visually identical, the outputmessage is generated and sent to the formatter 204. In addition, thecorresponding collector capture information is extracted from theassociated archive database entries, such as location, channel, time andother information. This information is then combined with the matcheroutput message by the formatter 204 and be sent out.

The matcher 600 takes in two fingerprint data sets. The first is thefinite duration fingerprint obtained from the input video clip 14. Thesecond is the fingerprint stream reconstructed from the searchedfingerprint archive database 400. The matching result between the two,combined with the additional information obtained from the archiveentries, such as time, location, channel and content types, are then puttogether as the search report. The output of the formatter 204 thereforecontains information on when and where the original video clip 14appeared in the video signals captured by the remote collectors 2.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 13, the fingerprint archive database800 contains all of the collected fingerprint archive data packets asits data entries. The database search operation (step 801) is initiatedwhen operator wants to retrieve all of the database entries meetingcertain search criteria, such as location, time and channel. Thedatabase then delivers the searched results, as a collection of entriesformatted as shown in FIG. 7, FIG. 11 and FIG. 12. The searched entriesare then organized according to specific location and channels, i.e.,entries from the same location and same channel are from a single videosource and thus will be reassembled together. The assemble process (step802) is already explained in greater detail as 101 in FIG. 12.

Once the fingerprint reconstruction is complete, it is aligned andcompared against the fingerprint data obtained from the searching videoclip (steps 803, 804). If the result is a match, it means that the twofingerprints represent two visually identical pieces of video content.In this case, the additional information obtained form the data entries,such as location, channel, time and any optional information, will becombined with the information on the searching video clip to product asingle report message (step 805). If the two fingerprints do not match,then the fingerprint array obtained from (step 802) is advanced by oneframe relative to the searching fingerprint (step 806), and thecorresponding information obtained from the newly included fingerprintdata points will be updated as well (step 807). The process is thenrepeated at (step 803).

The invention claimed is:
 1. A system for facilitating the search ofvideo content, comprising a fingerprint extractor which is adapted toextract image samples from a plurality of digital frames of a videocontent clip for specific time duration; the said fingerprint extractorforms groups of data associated with each of the said video frame; thesaid fingerprint extractor forms fingerprint data from plurality ofgroups of data associated with a plurality of video frames; afingerprint database storing fingerprint data extracted from distributedvideo content, in which database entries are stored according tospecific time duration, location, broadcast channel and type ofprogramming content of the distributed video content; a search module towhich at least one database entry matching the specific time duration oforiginal recording of video content are delivered, by which the searcheddatabase entries into continuous fingerprint streams are reconstructed,and in which the searched database entries from the same location andchannel are grouped together, and the fingerprint data sections arestripped out of the entries and concatenated according to the segment IDand time-stamps contained within each of the entries; a matcher by whichthe fingerprint associated with the video clip is used as query tosearch from the continuous fingerprint streams to issue a match resultif a match has been found; and a formatter which combines the matchingresult from the matcher when a match is found with additionalinformation obtained from the fingerprint database comprising time,location, and channel information to form a search report.
 2. The systemaccording to claim 1, wherein the additional information obtained fromthe fingerprint database comprises content types.
 3. The systemaccording to claim 1, wherein the video content clip is in digitalcompressed video data format, and it is made to first go through thereceiver converter to perform decompression and deliver the digitaldecompressed video frames to the fingerprint extractor.
 4. The systemaccording to claim 1, wherein the input to the extractor is thedigitized video frame data, and it is stored into a frame buffer, and asub-sampler obtains selected samples from each video frame data to formfingerprint data.
 5. The system according to claim 1, wherein saidfingerprint data is used as query to search from said fingerprintdatabase according to location, time, and channel when the recording wasmade, and/or programming content.
 6. The system according to claim 1,wherein said fingerprint stream is advanced relative to said searchingfingerprint by one frame and the matching operation is repeated, if amatch is not found.
 7. The system according to claim 6, wherein if amatch is found, the additional information associated with the entriesis combined with the information on the searching video clip to producea single report message.
 8. The system according to claim 7, wherein thesingle report message contains channel, video recording time of thestart and end frames of the matched fingerprint and geographic locationsof the video recording.